Projected Shadows Psychoanalytic Reflections

This book presents a new collection of essays exploring films from a psychoanalytic perspective, focussing specifically on the representation of loss in European cinema. Other themes familiar to psychoanalytic discourse are explored in the process.

Gabbard, Foreword. Sabbadini, Introduction. Kline, The Night of Melancholia and the Daylight of Mourning: Anne Fontaine's Comment j'ai tue mon pere. Goisis, Quest for a Lost Mother: Alina Marazzi's Un'ora sola ti vorrei. Wigoder, Berman, Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel? Keren Yedaya's Or (Mon Tresor). Costantini, Golinelli, The Anorexic Paradox: Matteo Garrone's First Love. Zwiebel, Reparation and the Empathic Other: Christian Petzold's Wolfsburg. Sabbadini, The Talking Cure from Freud to Almodovar: Hable con ella. Portuges, Intergenerational Transmission: The Holocaust in Central European Cinema. Webber, Cut and Laced: Traumatism and Fetishism in Luis Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou. Taylor Robinson, Two Short Films by Jan Svankmajer: Jabberwocky and Punch and Judy. Mulvey, Compilation Film as 'Deferred Action': Vincent Monnikendam's Mother Dao, the Turtle-like. Weinstein, Moving Beyond the Constraints of the Mortal Self: Universal Images of Narcissism in Jan Troell's The Flight of the Eagle. Stein, Tricycles, Bicycles, Life Cycles: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Childhood Loss and Transgenerational Parenting in Sylvain Chomet's Belleville Rendez-Vous. Diamond, Loss, Mourning and Desire in Midlife: Francois Ozon's Under the Sand and Swimming Pool. Sabbadini, Three Sisters: Sibling Knots in Bergman's Cries and Whispers. Christie, Time Regained: The Complex Magic of Reverse Motion. Films Index.